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Empire Quotes

You don't expect to get the letter saying, Her Majesty would like to appoint you Knight Commander of the British Empire! It was just a completely overwhelming and exciting day.

Day Saying You Knight Empire Expect

There's no longer a monolithic evil empire somewhere, spreading a different philosophy of life. That doesn't exist.

Life Evil Philosophy Empire Exist

Turkey has never been colonized, so it remained as an independent nation after the fall of the Ottoman Empire.

Fall Independent Never Nation Empire

The British especially have no excuse for forgetting that empire is a most complex and persistent beast. And it has claws.

Beast Forgetting Empire Complex Most

The tradition has always been that in Roman films, the Romans are always British, and it's usually posh British: Laurence Olivier and his ilk. My take on all this was that it's a metaphor for empire and the end of empire.

Kevin Macdonald

End Tradition Always Empire British

I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.

American Planet Empire Being Our

But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.

Government People Two Without Empire

I like to put a little spin on traditional styles as I see them now, probably somewhat inspired by my current job on 'Boardwalk Empire.'

Job Now See I See Empire Spin

If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.

Now Ignorant Empire Presidency Still

England produced Shakespeare, and the British Empire the six-shilling novel.

George A. Moore

Empire British British Empire England

I feel like we are reintroducing historical figures, with the explorer Marco Polo and the grandson of Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan, the ruler of the Mongol empire, the trading place that everybody wanted to get involved in.

Feel Place Empire Historical Get

I have my fashion empire to build.

Fashion Build Empire

Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.

Change Cuba First Things Empire Our

By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.

Control Now Europe Empire Gain Must

Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete laws, slowing blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic. Physicians call this arteriosclerosis; historians see decline of empire.

Aging Body Blood Flow See Empire

It's time for the people of the Empire State to strike back.

Time People Back Strike Empire

The Spanish Empire eventually collapsed because of its expensive taste for warfare and conquest.

Robert Kiyosaki

Taste Expensive Empire Because

Celebrating historic triumphs is a favorite pastime for many Turks. Tales of how Turkic peoples emerged from Central Asia, crossed the steppes to Anatolia, established the Ottoman Empire and ruled for centuries over large swaths of Europe and Asia are the subject of countless legends, poems and books.

Legends Over Europe Empire Books

The French Revolution ends slavery unilaterally. And it does so at this moment when the British, the Spanish, the Portuguese and the Americans - all of the other major powers - keep slavery. And the fact is that it's almost bankrupting the French Colonial Empire.

Moment Slavery Revolution Empire

The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire.

Michael Mandelbaum

American America Will Empire Because

When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia.

Myself Best Young Old Empire Undo

I just would like to keep going. If I kept getting the kind of work that I've been getting for the last 20 years for the next 20, I'd be a bloody Dame of the British Empire. I'd be so happy.

Anne-Marie Duff

Work Keep Going Happy Kind Empire

I'm from the colonies, so I remember when the sun never set on the British Empire.

Sun Remember Never Empire British

I think it's a great shame that America stopped being a republic and became an empire.

Marianne Faithfull

Great Think America Shame Empire

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